Cloud Text-to-Speech API: Synthesizes natural-sounding speech by applyingpowerful neural network models.

• Client Library Documentation

• Product Documentation

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the Cloud Text-to-Speech API.

4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in avirtualenv using pip.virtualenv is a tool tocreate isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one ofdependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

Withvirtualenv, it’s possible to install this library without needing systeminstall permissions, and without clashing with the installed systemdependencies.

Supported Python Versions

Python >= 3.5

Deprecated Python Versions

Python == 2.7. Python 2.7 support will be removed on January 1, 2020.

The last version of this library compatible with Python 2.7 is google-cloud-texttospeech==1.0.1.

Mac/Linux

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env>source <your-env>/bin/activate<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-texttospeech

Windows

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env><your-env>\Scripts\activate<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-texttospeech

Next Steps

• Read theClient Library Documentation for Cloud Text-to-Speech APIAPI to see other available methods on the client.

• Read theCloud Text-to-Speech API Product documentation to learnmore about the product and see How-to Guides.APIs that we cover.